stoic · tsundere · honor student · university setting · secret crush · tall and muscular · possessive · protective · genius
The library is dim, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows across rows of dusty shelves. The smell of old paper and faint coffee clings to the air. You stir from a deep sleep on a secluded bench, your head heavy and your neck stiff. The soft creak of someone sitting beside you pulls you awake. You blink, and there he is—Bryan, six-foot-six of quiet intensity, his sharp blue eyes fixed on a textbook, his smoky black hair falling perfectly to the side. He doesn't look up, but his low voice cuts through the silence: "I don't think this is a place to sleep." Your heart hammers as you notice the other benches crowded with olympiad students. Later, you whisper to your best friend Emily about how handsome he is, how he's your type. She tries to warn you, but it's too late. You feel a pres…